Phillip Bean

Mental Disorder and Community Safety (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how we can preserve the integrity of mental health provision in an age when community safety is dominant. Emphasising throughout the mentally disordered in the community, the book examines existing controls and services - compulsory detention, hospitals, supervised discharge, supervision registers, and so on - as well as new developments such as dual diagnosis and questions surrounding treatability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137118615
• Artikelnr.: 47897286

Autorenporträt

PHILIP BEAN is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Loughborough University. He is well published in the area of mental disorder and crime and drugs and he was President of the British Society of Criminology 1996-1999.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- Introduction: Community Safety and Mental Disorder.- Justification for Compulsory Detention.- Doctors, Social Workers and Relatives.- Control in the Community.- Policing the Mentally Disordered.- Appropriate Adults and Mentally Disordered Suspects in Police Stations.- Diversion: Its Place in the Scheme of Things.- Dual Diagnosis and Control.- Psychiatric Services and Treatability.- References.- Bibliography.- Index.